Example sentences for: mummies

How can you use “mummies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Xinjiang Museum (Xinjiang Bowuguan), with explanatory cards in English, Chinese, and Uighur, contains Silk Road coins, earrings, tiles, silks, and a handful of mummies, embalmed as long ago as the 13th century b.c.

  • A German doctor named Lorenz Hoffman had a typical Kunst- und Wunderkammer : he owned paintings by Durer and Cranach, a skeleton of a newborn, two dozen miniature spoons hidden within a cherry pit, an armband made of elks' hoofs, mummies and various rare musical instruments.

  • The anthropological spin: The mummies will teach us all about Inca religious practices.

  • He organized the rewrapping of many mummies and devised a secret hiding place for them in a narrow valley behind the Temple of Hatshepsut.

  • Nearby the Museo Canario holds the islands’ most important collection from Guanche times, with the highlight being the room of skulls and mummies, depicting the Guanches’ fascination with death (see page 14).


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